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WHO AM I ? - euigorwithyou - 09-09-2008
"Who am I?", - you may ask yourself. But do you really have a clear answer to this question?
Your character is not what you think it is. Your character is revealed through relationship with other people.
If the result of your self-improvement is self-impression, then there is no self-improvement!
Not the thoughts about yourself, but rather the interaction with other people in tough circumstances of your life, will give the answer to the question who you really are. You check, correct, build and forge your character through relationships with other people. That's why it is just natural that your character reveals itself through interactions with people.
Self-suggestion methods develop the sense of yourself in a sense of self-impression. They give you a feeling of knowing yourself, but never a real answer. You may enjoy both reading books about self-suggestion methods and the respective exercises. And I agree, they will give you some degree of joy, but never the answer to the question, who you really are. The answer gives you the tests of interactions with other people in challenging situations of your life. So, the question:"Who am I?" might be replaced with the question:"How do I behave, react, think when things are getting tough?". The answer to the second question is the answer to the first one.
Re: WHO AM I ? - Terry - 09-14-2008
You are right, it's not by chance said that "A friend in need is a friend indeed." If you help people when they live in harsh times, that needs no explanation to the question "who are you?"